A School of Fish That Offers Bachelor’s Degrees but No Giggles

I mentioned that when a college opened in Camarillo, it was named Cal State University Channel Islands, though, of course, Camarillo is on the mainland.

Rumor has it that school officials were afraid that the initials of a Cal State University Camarillo -- CSUC -- would draw unintended laughs. So now the school is CSUCI.

The result? Marvin Petal notes that it’s known to locals as Cal Sushi.

School daze (cont.): Continuing the discussion of school nicknames, Margo Kline writes that at that good-times school, UC Santa Barbara, “the initials UCSB are said by some of the rowdier students to stand for ‘U Can Study Buzzed.’ ” (Kline points out that the school does have six Nobel Prize winners, so not everyone is partying.)

At happy-go-lucky UC Santa Cruz, meanwhile, student Dori Daniels says the joke is that the initials stand for Uncle Charlie’s Summer Camp.

Harvey’s Hall of Wonders: Today’s curiosities (see accompanying) include:

* A stretch of road that did not seem to present a visual problem, despite the warning on a sign (it was taken down after a photo was snapped by Steve Nishibayashi of Glendale).

* A multiethnic restaurant where, one assumes, the entrees must include New England-style won ton soup (photo by Noel Collins of Sunland).

* A robe-type piece of clothing that carries an odd warning (submitted by Susan Emerson of Pacific Palisades, who asked: “What constitutes a sleep-related activity? Bedtime story reading? Brushing teeth? Yawning?”)

Halloween gift idea? Bob Mulligan of Chino noticed a spooky piece of furniture (see accompanying).

To live and drive in L.A.: In the category of most memorable freeway experience, radio personality Shelley Herman told Don Barrett’s laradio.com website that once, after she worked the morning shift at (the late) KMPC-AM (710), the radiator blew out on her car on the San Diego Freeway. She was parked on the shoulder listening to “colleague Joe West broadcast that traffic was ‘slowing on the 405 north due to a car overheating on the side of the road.’

“During the commercial break, I phoned in and was put on the air to give my first-hand account.... I was my own SigAlert!”

Nothing to smile about: The police log of the Laguna Niguel News says, “A man reported an ongoing problem with his wife kicking him out and cleaning the toilet with his toothbrush.”

miscelLAny: Syndicated columnist Norman Chad, quoted in the Seattle Times on the nation’s No. 1-rated college football team: “USC’s so good, the Trojans could win it all even if they only dressed their players who went to class.”